Anna Julianna Rudisill

Anna Rudisill is an artist whose practice explores the structures that make up and enforce emotional life. Working mainly with barbed wire, fabric, and paper, she creates materially tense sculptures that examine how social systems uphold and restrict empathy. Anna often develops sculptures in relation to her own poetry, constructing her own spaces where language,structure, and material all connect as a system. Through abrasive and delicate materials, her work grounds contradiction, protection and harm, connection and distance, softness and resistance. Anna treats material tension as a conceptual tool, allowing fragility and constrainment to reflect the complexities of emotional and social containment.